Favor

His favor [endures] for a lifetime.

 - From Psalm 30

A lifetime is as long as it gets. In the present age, we can measure the length of a lifetime. These measurements are only useful to us today. But in the eternal age it won't matter how long someone lived, whether in this life, or some other that, like the present age, is a subset of Eternity.

The real you, the real me, do not really care about length of life . . . because as eternal beings it has no value, or meaning, or relevance, to us. When we measure the length of someone's life, it serves only as a reminder that we should be sad. Length of life is really just a way of saying: "How long did it take until we lost this one?"

How many years (or months, or weeks) did it take for us to go from sadness to grief?

But for each individual, it is the longest span of time, that we can understand. Therefore, it's as long as it gets. The centenarian is no better off than the stillborn baby.

But God's favor enlivens us. It quickens us, rebirths us.

If God favors us, our life goes on . . . because God Himself is eternal. The favor of God gives the definition of life a different meaning entirely.

And his favor endures. This is better yet. This means it's not going away.

It's one thing to live . . . and we all want to do that, desperately.

It's another thing to live under God's enduring favor. There's no desperation there, no urgency. We no longer worry ourselves over cramming so many activities, or bucket list items, into a paltry sixty or so years.